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| The “muskies eating fur and feathers“ reminded me of a strange thing I saw a few years back. I saw an eagle in trouble on LOTW. Apparently it couldn’t fly for some reason and was using it’s wings to swim. We “guided” it to shore and it gave us a look and a chirp and it hopped into the forest never to be seen again. Not sure if he was saying thanks or what. LOL. What is the strangest thing you have seen while out on the water?
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| A pelican sitting on a rock that had its neck skinned somehow. Spot is now called the bloody pelican...we are very creative! |
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| We saw a Juvenile Eagle sitting on the same rock up on Eagle for about three days. Parents were nowhere in sight. We figured it must have been injured or abandoned. When it was still there on the third day, Mike says:
"Well, let's go get it. There's a lady in town that rehabilitates injured wildlife..."
ME: "f-you. You kiddin'?"
MIKE: "No. But we can't just leave it. So here's what we do. I'll get close, I'll throw my coat over it, and then you grab it!"
ME: "Really? All right, let's go."
MIKE: "They usually calm down once you cover their eyes. Whatever you do, don't let go!"
ME: "f---! Okay..."
As we're getting closer and this Eagle is staring at us, I'm thinking "This is either going to be one of the coolest things I have ever done, or one of the STUPIDEST things I have ever done. Man, they look a lot bigger from 10 feet away. I have to ride 20 miles back to camp with a death grip on that thing!" I bet those talons will hurt 'ya. It's probably gonna $^%& all over me!!"
(any of you who have ever handled and sort of wild animal know what I am talking about - it's the first thing they do when you pick them up!)
So we get right up to it, and it's looking at me like it wants to rip my eyes out... Mike takes his coat off, I'm standing there ready to pounce, or scream like a girl... Just as mike gets close enough to throw his coat, the Eagle flies off. I'm glad it wasn't injured. But at that point I was actually kind of sorry to see it fly off. How many times in life do you get to rescue an Eagle? |
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Location: Ogden, UTAH 10 minutes from pineview reservoir | I was fishing an 8" swimjig and was working it back to the boat and about 4ft from boatside I seen a follower, well i got the fish to slash at the bait and out of nowhere a second tiger came up from under the boat and took a swipe at it. Next cast landed a 39". It was cool seeing 2 tigers hunting together. Pulled 4 fish off the same ledge and had few more hook ups. They were stacked on the bait fish. I have seen smallies chase baits together but not tigers |
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Location: Ogden, UTAH 10 minutes from pineview reservoir | Also seen a wounded canadian goose that could not fly, well we decided we were gonna try and help it so i motored up to it from 25 yards away and out of nowwhere the bird disappeared , we looked all around and never could find it. Either drowned or was lunch. It was white capping and the goose had a big gash and a broken wing so who knows what happened. My stories are lame compared to the eagle stories!! |
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Location: Lake "y" cause lake"x" got over fished | esoxaddict - 5/5/2012 10:34 AM
We saw a Juvenile Eagle sitting on the same rock up on Eagle for about three days. Parents were nowhere in sight. We figured it must have been injured or abandoned. When it was still there on the third day, Mike says:
"Well, let's go get it. There's a lady in town that rehabilitates injured wildlife..."
ME: "f-you. You kiddin'?"
MIKE: "No. But we can't just leave it. So here's what we do. I'll get close, I'll throw my coat over it, and then you grab it!"
ME: "Really? All right, let's go."
MIKE: "They usually calm down once you cover their eyes. Whatever you do, don't let go!"
ME: "f---! Okay..."
As we're getting closer and this Eagle is staring at us, I'm thinking "This is either going to be one of the coolest things I have ever done, or one of the STUPIDEST things I have ever done. Man, they look a lot bigger from 10 feet away. I have to ride 20 miles back to camp with a death grip on that thing!" I bet those talons will hurt 'ya. It's probably gonna $^%& all over me!!"
(any of you who have ever handled and sort of wild animal know what I am talking about - it's the first thing they do when you pick them up!)
So we get right up to it, and it's looking at me like it wants to rip my eyes out... Mike takes his coat off, I'm standing there ready to pounce, or scream like a girl... Just as mike gets close enough to throw his coat, the Eagle flies off. I'm glad it wasn't injured. But at that point I was actually kind of sorry to see it fly off. How many times in life do you get to rescue an Eagle?
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| re: tossing a coat over an eagle. Imagine finding one caught in a foothold trap and you have to figure out how to release the thing. Owls will calm down tossing a blanket over them when they are in a trap. Eagles? Nope.
Last summer I saw a male swan chase a jetskier off of a lake and then as he was heading in to the boat launch it wouldn't let him in. It wasn't really strange...it was f*%$#ing awesome. The guy asked me for help suggesting I could head into the launch and he would tuck right in behind me because the swan didn't mess with bigger boats. I declined and said; "no, I trained him to harass jetskiers. I don't want to send him the wrong message by helping you out." |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | esoxaddict - 5/5/2012 10:34 AM
We saw a Juvenile Eagle sitting on the same rock up on Eagle for about three days. Parents were nowhere in sight. We figured it must have been injured or abandoned. When it was still there on the third day, Mike says:
"Well, let's go get it. There's a lady in town that rehabilitates injured wildlife..."
ME: "f-you. You kiddin'?"
MIKE: "No. But we can't just leave it. So here's what we do. I'll get close, I'll throw my coat over it, and then you grab it!"
ME: "Really? All right, let's go."
MIKE: "They usually calm down once you cover their eyes. Whatever you do, don't let go!"
ME: "f---! Okay..."
As we're getting closer and this Eagle is staring at us, I'm thinking "This is either going to be one of the coolest things I have ever done, or one of the STUPIDEST things I have ever done. Man, they look a lot bigger from 10 feet away. I have to ride 20 miles back to camp with a death grip on that thing!" I bet those talons will hurt 'ya. It's probably gonna $^%& all over me!!"
(any of you who have ever handled and sort of wild animal know what I am talking about - it's the first thing they do when you pick them up!)
So we get right up to it, and it's looking at me like it wants to rip my eyes out... Mike takes his coat off, I'm standing there ready to pounce, or scream like a girl... Just as mike gets close enough to throw his coat, the Eagle flies off. I'm glad it wasn't injured. But at that point I was actually kind of sorry to see it fly off. How many times in life do you get to rescue an Eagle?
likely the most words Mikey has said in a single day :0) |
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| jonnysled - 5/5/2012 12:47 PM
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likely the most words Mikey has said in a single day :0)
other than "hmph." and "let's move." 
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Location: Chaska MN. | Not on the water but next to it , We were camping up on Vermilion over Memorial day 5-6 years ago and the wind was blowing between 30-40 mph. Me and my son were sitting in camp with my two dogs both English setters when I looked up to see an eagle HIT a tree and come tumbling down right in my campsite. Well as you can imagine it was pandemonium with the two setters as the eagle landed between a group of trees got up and began running to a clearing that was a road with my dogs hot on its tail, I took off after the dogs fearing the worst and when I got to the clearing the first thing I saw was a ton of cotton from the trees in the air and my first thought was OH MY GOD the dogs got the bird but then I realized it was just cotton and that the eagle had gotten away OK
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| Ask Mike about his golf game and you might get a sentence or two out of him...
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Location: WI | Last Oct while trolling I got a rip, stood up and grabbed the rod and saw a 40-42" swim under the boat. i thought "sweet, I got a decent one". Then I reeled in a 32". What?!!! How often do you see random fish swimming next to the boat while trolling? |
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| Today my 11 yr old son and I were fishing and noticed this smell of rotted meat and go to shore and see a big rotten 8 pt buck. A few years back I was fishing memorial day weekend in a remote UP lake and noticed something floating in the lake and I went over to check it out and find a mostly rotted young bull moose.
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| Another one. Found these two flopping around on the surface on Lac Seul. Some jaw spreaders and a push of the thumb on the "nose" on the one pike and they were off to live another day.
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| It's always amazing what we see on the water. The craziest thing I ever seen was pre-fishing for a 2008 pmtt event on Lake Shelbyville. We got out early and the lake was foggy. That early morning light fog that makes everything kinda calm and spooky. We came out of a cove and spotted a deer near the shore in about a foot of water below a clay bank. As we got closer we could see the entire hind quarter was bright red. We thought (from about a 1/2 mile away) that she was giving birth or having trouble birthing. We hurried over with a Keyes Outdoors camera man rolling. As we got closer we could see the marks where she had fallen down the clay bank. She just stood there with her head down and laboring to breathe. When we were close enough we could see her entire hind 1/4 was skinned with the hide hanging off! As we filmed the erie scene and wondered what had happened we started the hear sounds from the trees atop the clay bank. Short yips and even barks. We never saw the coyotes but they were staying close to claim their kill. I swear that deer looked at us like.."yeah, I'm totally screwed" then put her head back down. Keyes has like 5 minutes of that footage. He's got some amazing stuff that isn't quite "TV worthy!" Where's that DVD!
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Location: Victoria,MN | On Sabaskong 4 years ago my buddy has a 48-49" following his bucktail. This fish was hot on it on the figure eight. I was standing motionless waiting to get the net, watching the action unfold as he turned the big girl the second time around. The water exploded as he laid back on the hookset. I grabbed the net and scooped up a 32" pike that came up and robbed the bucktail. What a heartbreaker!! |
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| Cool stories.
The strangest thing I ever saw was a great big snake swimming accross a small UP lake. It wouldn't have been strange but the snake was swimming with 10-15" of its head and "neck" straight up and out of the water. Like a cobra, sorta, but swimming. This was one big nice try snake.
Another coolio was having loons flash the boat, swimming at then away from the boat, all underwater. Turned out we were near the nest. I never would have believed how fast they can swim underwater until I saw it. |
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Location: north metro, MN | that eagle on the top post may have had a fish in its grasp! My uncle has seen it twice this year crappie fishing. both times the eagle grabbed a northern and used its wings to swim to shore to get a better grip on the fish and then took off with it... The craziest thing I have ever seen was a muskie swimming like a dolphin. If both me and my boat partner would have not seen it I would not even have bothered telling anyone including him what I had seen because it was so bizarre. I have never seen a fish swimming so fast and just like that "poof" the fish jumped out of the water sailing maybe a foot in the air and as soon as it touched back down into the water "poof" it took off again. It did that three times and it happened so fast. the fish was out the back of the boat and when my fishing partner turned toward me and saw that I was looking back at him he knew I must have seen it ( I was on the front deck looking back at him and the muskie did its dolphin jumps right in line with where I was looking) He just looked at me for a second and said, "did you see that s**t!?" |
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Location: Cottage Grove, WI | We had a Water Spout form and cut across in from of us while entering a small lake on the Chippewa River. It sounded like a freaking freight train and just leveled everything it touched. We were in canoes and it happened about 100 yds in from of us. I swear we were going to die but the winds never got to us, and this all happened on a sunny day with a few clouds. Never ever have seen anything like that again. |
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| The strangeest I've seen?? Ball lightning. This was during a wild raging thunderstorm. Opening the front door to watch the action outside under our covered porch, I was greeted by a floating, hissing, smelly, perfectly round, glowing sphere right in front of my face. The object was the size of a large beach ball and was so close to me that my first thought was to reach out and touch it. The ball lightning floated around the front porch appearing neutrally bouyant, gently bumping around the walls and ceiling, then disappeared right before my eyes in a large bang, with some kind of matter or plasma that fell to the ground and disappearing upon hitting the floor. There was a strong odor that accompanied this thing, which I believe today was probably the smell of nitrogen. I was 16 at the time and never told anyone because I thought I was 'seeing things'. Not until I was about 40 years old and came across a science article describing the phenomena called ball lighting did I realize that is what was on the porch with me that day decades earlier. Thank God I didn't touch it, as was my first inclination!
The strangest thing I've seen fishing was on a trip to N. Wisconsin with a group of guys. A couple of the guys in our group came back to dinner excitedely telling a story about how they were anchored while fishing for walleye near an old cabin in a remote area the lake when an attractive 20-something woman came down to the dock with her dog and proceeded to bathe in the lake - au naturale. We didn't believe them, but decided to make a point to be anchored in front of the dock the next day at the same time to see if lightning might strike twice. Our buddies who had originally seen the woman were there, too. To our great surprise, the woman appeared and the events unfolded exactly as had been described to us the day before. We were shocked to say the least. On the third day (our last of the trip), our entire group consisting of three boats and six guys were anchored quite near the woman's dock at exactly 5 p.m. On que, she and her dog showed up and did her thing as if we weren't even there.
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Yep, the naked bather thing happened in front of Sue and I, but it was a guy in his sixties. Keith and I rescued a red fox that was hooked to a cormorant that got tangled in a walleye two hook spinner rig. That fox didn't get it that we were trying to help. Saw two timber wolves swimming around aimlessly in a bay; when they spotted us they took off for the shore. They appeared to be enjoying a swim. All of this on Wabigoon.
Then there's Crazy Old Man Bay...
I've seen a couple waterspouts. One was on a tiny lake in Rhinelander, and it happened on a clear, warm, sunny day. Thing ripped up the shoreline and threw leaves, mud and lillypads everywhere, Beav and I sat there amazed while it went by us no more than 100 feet away. It lasted probably 5 minutes. |
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| I've seen the eagle swimming thing several times. In all instances, it was because the eagle had tried to catch a fish that ended up being too large for it to lift out of the water. The largest fish I ever saw an eagle catch was a low 40's musky that it 'swam' to shore and proceeded to eat.
While ice fishing, we have taken snake northerns and purposely tossed them maybe 50 feet away from us on the ice and had eagles come down and land on the ice to get them.
I've also seen muskies come right up next to the boat and grab small perch that were deeply hooked and tossed back that were struggling on the surface. |
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | while pre-fishing at Eagle River a number of yrs. ago, on a very Hot day, my partner and I saw a guy about 60yrs old and 280lbs cleaning his deck,................While wearing ONLY a Thong !!
I still have nightmares sometimes, and will not fish anywhere near that area ever again.......Talk about the hebejebes Man that just wasn't right. |
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| Rare giant pelican that has been spotted from time to time in Western PA. Looks twice the size of an eagle. It was perched in a tree on the southern shore of Lake Wilhelm, Mercer County, PA. It took off and flew to the southwest. I couldn't believe what I was seeing:"Oh my G--." Didn't know what it was at the time. Later read about this bird; and made the mental connection. Might be the origin of the ancient Indian legend of the Thunderbird. |
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Location: Chisholm, MN | Had a big owl chasing a low rider to the boat after dark. I yelled out at it before it could grab it luckily. That was pretty cool. |
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Location: Home of the 2016 World Series Champion Cubs | Water spout gave us a glancing blow, no pun inte.... yeah ok pun was intended, on shelbyville. Had it have been a direct hit we surely would have capsized. We were half way tipped over there as it was and gear was tossed everywhere.
Nude bathers, two of them, 20 somethings females on Dryberry, the boys they were with were out fishing according to them (hmmmm???)
Three eagles fighting each other for one smallie on a sept trip on Tomahawk. VERY cool, (not to diminish the aforementioned females on dryberry). one came down and snatched up the bass when it was attacked in mid air by number two in a mid air tug of war. Bass ended up plunging from about 100'. #3 tried to steal the meal when engaged by # 1, those two were off when #3 tries the sneak. Mid air battles. Dive bombing for fish a cool show that lasted for some 15-20 minutes. I dont think we made a single cast during the whole show.
Ball lightning? Ive seen that too. Oddly enough it has always been at Pink Floyd concerts. an amazing phenomenon. Going to Wrigley Field in just about a month now to see Roger Waters perform "The Wall" , I wonder if ill see it again????
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Location: Home of the 2016 World Series Champion Cubs | No, wait a minute, maybe those were flying pigs. |
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Location: Cedarburg, Wisconsin | My friend and I were fishing on High Falls in N. Wis. when we saw something that didn't look right. As we were headed towards the dam fishing, we figured we'd see it up closer eventually and we did. The one big blob on the horizon turned out to be a young eagle in the top of a tree. It was flapping it's wings once in a while kind of hopping in place looking down. There below it was something different. It made a lot of motions I'd never seen before and had the eagle completely intrigued. Got closer and it turned out to be a crow! It was tangled in some kind of line hanging upside down frantically trying to right itself. It would swing like a pendulum, then flap almost vertical only to fall back again. Wanted to help it but it was about 40 feet up in a tree that grew below the dam, so it fooled us, looking like it was just above our eye level. Very strange. We kept on fishing, the eagle kept on watching and the crow kept on flapping, end of story. |
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Location: SE Wisconsin | Ben Olsen - 5/5/2012 8:59 PM He's got some amazing stuff that isn't quite "TV worthy!" Where's that DVD! Ben, push him for this! I'd pre-order. |
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Location: Seymour, WI | Had a loon go around in the figure for several turns, thought it was a really fat musky at first.
Was fishing around a small point on Caldron Falls, and heard something in the bushes on shore. Turned out to be a huge bear that was standing up on its hind legs looking at me as I fished around the point. |
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